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So far I produced software mostly for the manufacturing industry (Alstom
Power (Switzerland) Ltd.).
To be very precise, I had the pleasure to develop parts of the monitoring
system for the largest water power plant world wide - together with Oberon
Microsystems (cf.
http://www.oberon.ch/pdf/Projektbericht_Alstom_Power_Monitoringsystem.pdf).
I did smaller projects for individual customers, e.g. an application to
maintain and calculate Life Cycle Inventories (prototype of ecoinvent:
www.ecoinvent.ch).
It seems obvious to me that convincing a customer about buying a solution
based on BlackBox
presumes the requirement for a very specialized application - maybe with
performace critical GUIs. Otherwise a customer might rather prefer a web
based solution that does not require the presence of any particular runtime
system.
Very suitable BlackBox can also be for large server side processing
involving large databases or multi-tier architecture. I know for a fact that
many many huge software systems running at full load on expensive multi node
server systems could be replaced be lightweight implementations on cheap PC
hardware - just doing all the work faster, without all the overhead of IPC
and virtual distributed machines!
(Note that my BB environment NEVER blocks background processing
(Services.Actions) while tracking with the mouse here and there (nor does
CPU usage raise to 100%.)
Having an OCI adapter ready, allowing to implement any sort of Oracle DB
access, I can say that a BlackBox based implementation can be interesting
for practically every client, even for those who already have a partial
solution but need to extend it. They simply need to be confronted with the
reality that a state of the art implementation from scratch might be much
cheapter than an extension of an old system.
Marco Ciot
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From: blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy
G. Danforth
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 21:11
To: BlackBox Mailing List
Subject: [BlackBox] - Supporting BlackBox
Marco,
Your comments are very interesting!
Could you (without compromising your clients) tell us the type of
software for which they have been willing to pay?
What industries? E.g. finance, medical, insurance, web sites, ...?
-Doug Danforth
Marco Ciot wrote:
> Hi everybody
>
> The existance of this community is quite new to me, but not so is Oberon
> Microsystems and BlackBox Component Builder.
> As a software engineer I have productively delivered software based on
> BlackBox during the past 10 years. In total I have earned with my
> programming under BlackBox quite some more than $100'000.- ;)
> If I estimate now, that I was 20% faster due to the convenience of the
> system, I would conclude that the BlackBox advantage is at least worth
> $20'000.- to me.
> At the same time I had to make extensions to the BlackBox library (i.e. an
> Oracle subsystem (not currently listed in the BB-Subsystem-Registry)). Had
> these extensions already existed I might have been even 50% faster.
>
> Assuming there are other productive developpers like me, I guess there is
a
> huge potential for earning money through maintaining and extending
BlackBox.
> But isn't this potential there in the IT world in general?
> If developpers would cooperate better, IT wouldn't cost that much.
> The conclusion is: maybe only 10% of the currently productively working
> programmers would satisfy the global demand for IT solutions.
> But this only leads into philosophical nirvana...
>
> I will keep programming under BlackBox as long as I have customers who are
> buying software from me that I can implement using BlackBox.
>
> Currently I am in a diffucult financial situation and have only little
paid
> tasks, so I am extending/improving BlackBox here and there during my
"free"
> time.
> But the first request I will get from a customer asking for my paid
services
> not related toward BB will keep me from doing so...
>
> My conclusion:
> Bring me customers, whom you can convince that software based on BlackBox
is
> a great thing, and I myself will keep BlackBox alive, FOR FREE!
>
> Sincerly,
> Marco Ciot
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